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E-books, audio books, interactive books
E-books are engaging and provide greater access to students with variety of needs; allow searching, note taking, highlighting and utilizing dictionary instantly; are portable (you can carry a whole library of hundreds of with you without worrying about their weight) and can be read everywhere, on the bus, train, airplane, and while standing in a line. E-books make reading fun! Let’s read through modern and unique technologies for 21st century learners. To promote reading and offer alternative approaches to books for both avid and reluctant readers this page is combining ISE Library's growing e-book collection and free e-books resources online.
Podcasts offer an opportunity to practice listening comprehension of complex texts that are both conversational and formal.
inanimate Alice
An exciting example of interactive book is "Inanimate Alice" a unique digital novel using trans-media, set in a technology-augmented near-future, telling a story of a young girl who grows up to become a videogame designer at the biggest games company in the world. Beginning in China when Alice is eight years old, and told over ten increasingly complex episodes the series follows the journey of Alice and her closest "friend" Brad around the world and towards their final destiny.
ISE Library e-books
ISE Library e-book collection is accessible through MackinVia e-reader. Free iPad apps is available at AppStore. Contact library@ise.edu.ee for individual usernames and login information.
Tallinn Central library digital collections
Overdrive is a free service offered by Tallinn Central Library that lets you borrow e-books, audiobooks and magazines in English and Russian from the digital collection. All you need to get started with reading free digital titles from OverDrive is an internet connection and a valid library card.
Registering for a library card
The closest Tallinn central library branch (Department of Literature in Foreign Languages) for getting a library card in person is just around the corner at Liivalaia 40, behind the little church opposite Olympia Hotel. Please see the map below.
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